Recent Externally Funded Awards
November - December 2019
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Chandler, Josephine |
Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health |
Quorum Sensing Evolution and Function in Mixed Bacterial Communities | $1,840,725 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Principal and Charter School Site Leadership SWIFT for Equity and Excellence | $1,199,998 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Increased Sensitivity of Minimal Residual Disease Monitoring using Peripheral Blood in Pediatric Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | $910,799 |
| Akin, Becci | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Children & Families | Prevention Grant Evaluation, Families First Prevention Services Act | $861,123 |
| Weis, David | Chemistry | Health Research, Inc. | Lyme Disease: B Cell Epitope Discovery and Mechanisms of Antibody Protection | $808,955 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative | Antigen-Adjuvant Formulation and Characterization Studies to Assess HIV-1 Envelope (Env) Glycoprotein(s) and Adjuvant Formulations | $700,000 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Maryland - Baltimore | Adjuvant Development of the TLR4 Ligand BECC438 | $670,147 |
| Hasiuk, Franciszek | Kansas Geological Survey | Iowa Department of Transportation | Phase III Iowa Pore Index: Morphometric Properties of Aggregates | $345,525 |
| Funk, Ryan | Pharmacy Practice | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Metabolomic Markers of Disease Activity and Therapeutic Response in Autoimmune Arthritis | $227,251 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas A&M Research Foundation | Performance Prediction and Analysis of Airfield Pavements Subjects to Next Generation Aircraft | $225,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $215,916 |
| Boyd, Brian | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Examining Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Extreme Eating Behaviors in Young Children with ASD | $194,682 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: HCBS PACE Research | $173,463 |
| Ewing, Mark | Aerospace Engineering / Office of Research | Kansas Department of Transportation | Master Research Services Agreement for Unmanned Aerial Systems Flight Operations, Technical Integration, and Research | $150,000 |
| Hernandez, Daniel | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | A Study of Hypersurfaces in General Position Inspired by Frobenius | $145,000 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Services | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: HCBS PACE Instruction | $135,564 |
| Reuman, Daniel | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of California - Davis | Synchrony of Native Fish Movements: Synthesis Science towards Adaptive Water Management in the Central Valley | $123,571 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | American Chemical Society | Relating Surface Chemistry of Carbonaceous Materials to Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation Rates to Advance the Characterization of Petroleum Deposits | $110,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Orange County Department of Education | ACCESS | $108,000 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation of High Mast Illumination Poles: Influence of Light Fixtures | $100,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond | $100,000 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Hafion LLC | Toward the Development of a Protein:Non-Protein Macromolecular Adjuvants | $100,000 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | Heising-Simons Foundation | Connecting Regional Research to Local Communities: Helheim Glacier/Sermilik Fjord and Tasiilaq township, East Greenland | $100,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities | Supporting Decision Making: Learning from Self-Advocate Experience | $95,584 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Nature Conservancy | Integrated Watershed Modeling | $93,000 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department for Aging & Disability Service | Medicaid Waiver Functional Eligibility Instrument: CARE INSTRUCTION | $85,348 |
| Yung, Corey Rayburn | School of Law | Harvard University | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study | $77,500 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | How Do State Policies Affect Access to TANF Benefits? | $75,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation | Accessible Recreation: Playing Electronic Games Independently to Increase Health & Social Connection | $75,000 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | RNA-Binding Protein HuR in Liver Pathophysiology and Carcinogenesis | $74,797 |
| Hardy, Saralyn Reece | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment for the Arts | Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body | $45,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Cooperative Agreements for Tribal Behavior Health (Native Connections) | $42,282 |
| Li, Xiaoli | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Geology | Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium | Phase Behavior of the Confined Fluids in Carbonate Unconventional Reservoirs | $40,762 |
| McGeough, Briana | Social Welfare | Public Health Institute: Alcohol Research Group | Understanding 12-Step Involvement Among Sexual and Gender Minorities | $34,385 |
| Zeng, Yong | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Exosome Phenotyping for Liquid Biopsy Based Diagnosis and Monitoring of Alzheimer's Disease | $30,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Second Step Evaluation Project | $26,000 |
| Baer, Sara | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Kansas State University | Processes Influencing Community Assembly During Tallgrass Prairie Restoration | $24,659 |
| Peterson, Andrew Townsend | Biodiversity Institute | Northrop Grumman Foundation | Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing to Inform Conservation Planning and Decision-Making in Sapo National Park, Liberia | $20,000 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Core Facility Support (CFS) | $20,000 |
| Bolick, Joshua | Libraries | North Carolina State University | Scholarly Communication Notebook | $17,273 |
Previous Awards
September - October 2019
July - August 2019
| Primary Investigator | Home Unit / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Synapse Structural Dynamics and Memory Loss in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease | $1,839,822 |
| Smith, Adam | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Structural and Functional Connectivity of the Social Decision-Making Network | $1,835,772 |
| Hill, Mary | Geology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | FEWtures: Innovation Analysis Framework for Resilient Futures, with Application to the Central Arkansas River Basin | $1,400,000 |
| Beach, James | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | CIBR: Collaborative Research: Integrating Data Communities with BiotaPhy: A Computational Platform for Data-Intensive Biodiversity Research and Training | $1,245,287 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Cool Science: Art as a Vehicle for Intergenerational Learning | $799,323 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | North Dakota Department of Public Instruction | North Dakota DLM: 2019-2020 Operational/Testing (Sci) + Science Development | $664,500 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Office of Naval Research | Waveform Diversity Experimentation System (WaDES) | $622,882 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Science Foundation | CAREER: UAS-Based Radar Suite for Sounding and Mapping Glaciers | $609,816 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | CEBC + Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | PFI-RP: Development of Continuous Process Concepts for Upgrading Lignin in Biorefineries | $549,915 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration | Airborne Snow Depth Retrieval for Improved Hydrological Modeling | $499,926 |
| Thorp III, James | Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Proposal | MRA: Teleconnections Among Great Plains NEON Sites by Wind and Wing | $417,130 |
| Lamb, Audrey | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | The Chemistry of Riboflavin Biosynthesis | $400,000 |
| Elles, Christopher | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Broadband Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy for High-Repetition Rate Lasers | $397,788 |
| Baer, Sara | Kansas Biological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | LTREB Renewal: The Role of Ecological Heterogeneity in a Long-Term Grassland Restoration Experiment | $392,655 |
| Jackson, Timothy | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Geometric and Electronic Structure Contributions to Bond-Breaking and Bond-Making Reactions of Mid-Valent Manganese-Oxygen Complexes | $390,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas ECCS Impact Grant | $386,646 |
| Chandler, Josephine | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Quorum Sensing Rvolution and Function in Mixed Bacterial Communities | $368,145 |
| Sullivan, Pamela | Geography & Atmospheric Science | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Digging Deeper: Do Deeper Roots Enhance Deeper Water and Carbon Fluxes and Alter the Trajectory of Chemical Weathering in Woody Encroached Grasslands? | $334,681 |
| Irvin, Dwight | Life Span Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | CSL-MultiAD: Assessing Collaborative STEM Learning through Rich Information Flow Based on Multi-Sensor Audio Diarization | $300,000 |
| Baringer, Philip | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Particle Physics at the Energy Frontier with the CMS Experiment | $300,000 |
| Hoeflich, Michael | Law / Hall Center for the Humanities | Department of Defense | University of Kansas IC Center for Academic Excellence (KU-ICCAE) | $295,967 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Ohio State University | Research Grants for Preventing Violence and Violence-Related Injury | $293,507 |
| Jensen, Kirsten | Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Cestode Phylogeny and Genomics: A Spine for the Spineless, Gutless worms | $286,810 |
| Roy, Anuradha | High Throughput Screening Lab | Kansas State University | Discovery of Hsp100-Selective Inhibitors for Targeting Multiple Microbial Pathogens - High Throughput Screening | $286,509 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Equipment Exchange: Increasing Access to Durable Medical Equipment (DME) | $285,000 |
| Stefanov, Atanas | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves | $231,127 |
| Suarez, Marina | Geology | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Continental Paleoenvironmental Responses to Carbon Cycle Perturbations During the Mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse | $230,971 |
| Taylor, Michael | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | What Created the Southern Tibetan Plateau Drainage Divide? Integrated Tectonic and Geomorphic Investigation of the Gangdese Range and Yarlung River | $229,448 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Assisting Medicaid Beneficiaries in Accessing Assistive Technology (ATK) | $228,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Children & Families | EPIC Skillz Project FY20 | $208,464 |
| Peltier, Edward | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Office | Pilot Test Project for Produced Water near Hardtner, Kansas | $199,175 |
| Orive, Maria | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | SG: Clonality and the Scope for Adaptation in Heterogeneous Environments | $162,324 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Genetic Dissection and Characterization of Variation in Copper Resistance in Drosophila Melanogaster | $122,836 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | HKA | A Guidebook for Risk-Based Construction Inspection | $122,601 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Maintain Existing and Wxpand Kansas-Based Data Services to the NGWMN | $84,720 |
| Stewart, Debora | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Preservation of Kansas Oil and Gas Well Geologic Data, Records, and Samples, and Aerial Photographs, FY2019 | $82,549 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment for the Arts | Exploring Marginalized Communities Through the Woman's Voice | $70,000 |
| Michaelis, Elias | HBC + Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KU ADC Mitochondrial Genomics and Metabolism Core Supplement | $63,551 |
| Yan, Xinmai | Mechanical Engineering | Vesarex LLC | Ultrasound-Facilitated Endovascular Laser Thrombolysis | $58,541 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry + Mechanical Engineering / Chemistry | Digital Nanogenetics LLC | A Novel Single Molecule Sequencing Technology for Direct, Label-less Detection of Unamplified DNA Single Molecules | $41,738 |
| MacDonald, Teresa | Biodiversity Institute | University of California - Berkeley | STEM Escape: Immersing Urban and Rural Families in Biomedical Mysteries | $31,969 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Theatre on the Spectrum | $30,000 |
| Geana, Mugur | Journalism | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Sexual Health Empowerment for Jail-Involved Women's Health Literacy and Prevention | $28,650 |
| Stachnik, Justin | Geography & Atmospheric Science | University of Oklahoma | Analysis of TRMM-GPM Observation to Improve Our Process Level Understanding and Modeling of Precipitation and Latent Heating in Tropical Easterly Waves | $26,075 |
May - June 2019
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Administrative Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Enhanced Implementation of K-Scope & ASII Tunnel Detection Analysis Approach Using FWI, Modal Segmentation Methods, and Integrated Multi-Modal Techniques | $3,630,349 |
| Hock, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Possible Selves and Self-Determination: Improving Transition Outcomes for High School Students with Learning Disabilities | $3,293,003 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Defense | Development of a Military-Specific Transdiagnostic Eating-Disorder Survey and Screening Tool in a Nationally Representative Sample of Veterans | $1,721,698 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Professional Development to Support Intervention Implementation of the Promoting Communication Tools for Advancing Language in Kids (PC TALK) for Infants and Toddlers at Risk for or with Disabilities | $1,400,000 |
| Boyd, Brian | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Effects of Implicit Bias on Children's Early Outcomes | $1,400,000 |
| Sailor, Wayne | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project DataWall: A Decision Support System for MTSS | $1,388,621 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Technology Education for Women in Transition: Broadening Participation Through Innovations | $1,038,035 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Bilateral BBSRC-NSF/BIO: CIBR: Structural Modeling of Interactome to Assess Phenotypic Effects of Genetic Variation | $957,042 |
| Perkins, Jonathan | Academic Resource Center, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Institute for International Education | Building Language Capacity and Cultural Competency to Meet National Security Needs: The University of Kansas Language Training Center | $704,002 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | NASA Goddard Space Center | AGILE: Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope | $659,940 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Science Foundation | Engineering Interfaces for High-Performance Oxide Superconductor Nanocomposite Films | $502,749 |
| Alexander, Perry | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Adventium Labs | Vulnerabilities Out of Learned Timed Automata (VOLTA) | $459,520 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | IDPH CQI Support and Module Development (FY2019) | $442,221 |
| Picking, William | Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Identification of Small Molecule Probes for Dissecting the Roles of Sorting Platform Components within the Type III Secretion System | $416,625 |
| Chapman, Shawna | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | LYFTE: Lifting Young Families toward Excellence | $335,227 |
| Ginther, Donna | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: The Effect of State Disinvestment in Higher Education on Research Quality and Returns to Scale in Science Funding | $236,790 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Title V MCH Statewide Needs Assessment | $216,281 |
| Wehmeyer, Michael | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | AspirePlus: A Researcher-Practitioner Partnership to Promote Self-Determination and More Positive Student Outcomes | $199,961 |
| Bever, James | Kansas Biological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Legume-Rhizobia Mutualism as a Driver of Grassland Composition and Community Resistance to Invasion | $150,670 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | Control of Chromosome Segregation by DNA Topoisomerase II | $150,371 |
| Dunn, Robert | Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | National Institutes of Health | Scanning Resonator Microscopy | $142,202 |
| DeKosky, Brandon | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Integrated Biotherapeutics Inc. | Mining Natively Paired Macaque Antibodies for Marburg Virus Protective Antibodies | $129,989 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Universities Space Research Association | Searching for Torus Emission in Cold Quasars | $114,300 |
| Luo, Bo | Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas: Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Stars | $98,411 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Fibertek Inc. | Acquisition Design and Data Conditioning in Advance of Implementation of K-Scope for Assessment of Groundbreaker Capabilities to Improve Subterranean Detection Capabilities | $87,701 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering | Wichita State University | National Space Grant Consortium College and Fellowship 2019 | $67,950 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Sexual Violence Primary Prevention Community Based Project Evaluation | $60,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal | $52,303 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Ensuring Mental Health Needs are Met for All Students Through a Multi-Tiered System of Support | $51,910 |
| Sullivan, Pamela | Geography & Atmospheric Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Colorado School of Mines | CZ RCN: Building Capacity to Deepen the Critical Zone: Expanding Boundaries and Exploring Gradients through Data-Model Synergy | $40,049 |
| Ward IV, Robert | Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Summer Scholars Y6 | $36,360 |
